When comparing Fleksy vs Hacker's Keyboard, the Slant community recommends Fleksy for most people. In the question“What are the best Android soft keyboards?”Fleksy is ranked 4th while Hacker's Keyboard is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Fleksy is:

Fleksy is made by the creators of the alternative keyboard BlindType that was acquired by Google. As a result many of the technologies developed in BlindType are reinvented in Fleksy. The combination of accurate prediction and gestures allow you to focus on the text you are actually typing not the keyboard.

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Pros

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Type without looking at the keyboard

Fleksy is made by the creators of the alternative keyboard BlindType that was acquired by Google. As a result many of the technologies developed in BlindType are reinvented in Fleksy. The combination of accurate prediction and gestures allow you to focus on the text you are actually typing not the keyboard.

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Modern design

The Fleksy experience from the opening tutorial to the design of the keyboard is extremely well developed and very modern. Almost all reviews note the appearance as one of it's best features.

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Gesture system

The most unique aspect about Fleksy is it's gesture system. The middle row of keys that is grayed out serves as the gesture row. The gesture row uses swipes to input spaces, periods, and correction all while you are typing. Of course this new way of typing will definitely take some to get used to.

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Personalization

Like other alternative keyboards Fleksy can personalize your predictions based on your social media, Gmail, SMS, and device dictionary.

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Minimalist design

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Light, dark, and blue themes

The Fleksy themes can be changed in the look feel section of the settings.

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"Mini" mode

Fleksy is able to offer a "mini" sized keyboard that is shorter in height because the whole row of keys with the spacebar is hidden. Fleksy is able to do this because spaces, periods, and corrections can all be performed with simple gestures. "Mini" mode can be accessed at any time by swiping the keyboard down with two fingers. "Mini" mode saves critical screen real estate.

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Emoji support

Fleksy features over 800 emoji that the user can use when typing.

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Smooth Popup keypress

Fleksy has a very smooth keypress.

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Extremely accurate autocorrect

Fleksy uses a very accurate auto correct that has allowed the app to break the speed typing record on a mobile keyboard as well as allow users to type without even looking at the screen.

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Holds world record for fastest typing on a touchscreen

Fleksy broke the world record by typing "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

The record holder typed this message in just 18.19 seconds, beating the old record by 1/4 of a second.

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Support extensions

Extensions enable user to customize the keyboard according to their need.

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Works on Gear 2 smartwatch

Fleksy is able to be installed on Gear 2 watches, making for a whole new way to type to ones phone or tablet.

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Open source

Hacker's Keyboard is an open source project meaning that anyone can use the available code for free.

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Supports a lot of keyboard layouts and dictionaries

Hacker's Keyboard support 31 different languages and many different layouts such as AZERTY and QWERTZ.

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Mimics the look of a desktop keyboard

Cons

Con

No swipe input

Fleksy does not use the popular swype function for typing.

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No updates

Unfortunately, no development is going on anymore.

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Free version is only a trial

The free version of Fleksy is only a one month free tiral, to use the app past that one month the user would either need to pay for the app through an in app purchase or purchase the paid version from the Play Store.

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No next word prediction

Fleksy does not use a next word prediction, so each word will have to be typed.

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Few languages are supported

Fleksy supports English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Although because Fleksy is still in development you can vote online for your language to be released faster.

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Poor auto correction

The auto correction on Hacker's Keyboard does not work that great, especially when compared to other offerings on Android.